None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
TACITUSFear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
More Tacitus Quotes
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
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When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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